SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Fixed-term contracts have long been the norm for research-only contracts, which are usually dependent on short-term funding from a external grant. However, the Equality Act of 2010, making it discriminatory to enforce retirement by age, has helped to discourage contracts promising ‘permanence’.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

The award of doctorates in Divinity had ceased to depend on advanced scholarship, and had often became more or less honorific as new Bishops began to be granted an automatic Doctorate of Divinity. Doctorates for young scholars came next and in 1921 Oxford granted its first DPhil and Cambridge its first PhD, both expecting original research.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For one, we do not prohibit the academic study of leisure, especially if it attracts big grants). Upon closer inspection, time is not saved at all, especially for those in precarious temporary contracts, or with student loans, or who need a promotion, or on scholarship deadlines. Social sciences as sorcery. New York: St. Paris: Seuil.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Drake, who recently announced that he would be stepping down as president of the University of California at the end of the 2024-2025 academic school year, said that UC is not necessarily opposed to the legislation. From the president Dr. Michael V.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Last time we talked about the OPMs and we’ll talk about that a little bit, but today let’s focus on some of the mega trends that you’re seeing in higher education technology and do a little prognostication about 2024. [00:32:32] And the pandemic made it worse and added noise to the system, but now it’s early 2024. [00:39:57]

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Last month, it announced that it would move the 2024 meeting, scheduled for New Orleans, out of Louisiana because of the state’s laws restricting access to abortion and the participation of transgender people in sports. This is more than a “business decision,” said Jason P. million reported in revenue from membership dues.

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University Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Federal officials discovered that land-grant HBCUs in 16 states have been underfunded compared to their neighboring, predominantly white research universities by more than $12 billion since 1987. Secondly, the size of the Defense’s research and development budget is expected to reach $145 billion in 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Department of Education (ED) announced additional steps to facilitate submitting the 2024–25 FAFSA form. In addition, new routine program reviews are being suspended through June 2024, except for issues of suspected fraud or severe breach of fiduciary duty. On Monday, the U.S. Since the form became available on Dec.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2023

The original rule was designed to monitor contracted companies that provide colleges and universities with services to manage various aspects of Federal Student Aid. These regulations will likely not go into effect until July 1, 2024, at the earliest. It provides grants and loans to students. So, that’s the hook.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In 1962 a mandatory grant was introduced to pay for the education of ‘all those qualified by ability and attainment and who wished to do so’, in the words of the Robbins Report (1963). Skills shortages even today are calculated to cost the UK economy up to £39 billion a year from 2024 through to 2027. Redistribution is imperative.

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University Business

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Some college boards are choosing unconventional candidates for the president position to grant it a fresh pair of eyes and a bold new direction. Cloud State University, has announced she will conclude six years of service at the Minnesota school in June 2024. Stepping down Robbyn Wacker – St. Cloud State University (Minn.)

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As the inter said, I’m micro credentials program manager at University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a co founder of the annual badge summit conference that is going to be in its ninth year here in 2024 at CU Boulder. And so 2016 to 2024 is only eight years. So, we’ll go ahead and get started.

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As the inter said, I’m micro credentials program manager at University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a co founder of the annual badge summit conference that is going to be in its ninth year here in 2024 at CU Boulder. And so 2016 to 2024 is only eight years. So, we’ll go ahead and get started.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

As Secretary of State for Education, Gillian Keegan sent a Letter of Guidance to the Office for Students on 4 April 2024. The change of Government in July 2024 brought a new Secretary of State in the person of Bridget Phillipson but no fresh Letter of Guidance before she spoke in the Commons in a Higher Education debate on 4 November, 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2025

million in contracts between Columbia and the federal government and conduct a "comprehensive review" of more than $5 billion in federal grant commitments to the institution. billion of Columbia's annual operating revenue in the 2024 fiscal year. Federal funding constituted approximately $1.3

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

Some academics are responsible for both teaching and research but there may also be research-only staff, usually on fixed-term externally-funded contracts, which may be classified on the sameside of the trench as academics. The umbrella carriers of middle management and dealing with difficult things provide matter for Chapter 7.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Closing colleges and universities Philadelphias University of the Arts closed in 2024. approximately 46 university faculty both tenured and adjunct will receive notice that their contracts will not be renewed for 2025-26. I posted about an earlier round of cuts there in 2024.) million of administration and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

So much of the academic labor is being done by people on short term contracts, in vulnerable positions.” Another factor was changes in the make-up of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which granted graduate workers at private schools the right to unionize in 2010. Conditions of work for many in higher education are not great.

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University Business

MARCH 20, 2025

In fiscal year 2024 alone, the net cost to operate the department was more than $218 billion, according to an analysis from the Pew Research Center. In grants to K12, the departments spending totaled more than $150 billion in FY2024, according to its annual financial report. trillion at the end of fiscal year 2024. Loans: $85.8

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University Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This EO also directs federal agencies, employees, contractors, grantees to terminate, to the maximum extend allowed by law all DEI/DEIA-related grants, contracts, and performance requirements.

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University Business

JANUARY 29, 2025

Noncompliance with the executive order could mean MSU loses hundreds of millions of dollars from federal grants and contracts. In 2024, the university received $528 million from the federal government, a significant amount supporting research at the institution, the 2024 Annual Financial Report shows.

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University Business

JUNE 25, 2024

Long gone are the days when colleges and universities could visit Capitol Hill and expect universal support for campus grants. More than 200 schools had a collective 2,900 contracts with Chinese businesses—worth $2.32 billion — between 2012 and 2024, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 24, 2025

In 2024, as Trump continued to remain a significant force in American politics, the ideological battle over education remained unresolved. Meanwhile, the University of Pennsylvania also experienced significant financial strain due to cuts in federal contracts, which impacted their research funding and innovation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Per the one-time federal student loan debt relief effort, Pell Grant recipients who earned within a certain amount of income during the pandemic — less than $125,000 for individuals and under $250,000 for married couples or heads of households — would have had up to $20,000 in debt forgiven. Approximately 2.9 1, 2023, to Sept.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Carl Barney, the ultra-wealthy former owner of a chain of collapsed for-profit colleges, is the third biggest California-based donor to efforts to elect Donald Trump in 2024, the Los Angeles Times reports today. Barney has donated $924,600 to the Trump 47 Committee, according to federal records. Soon after, the U.S.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

19) Over $1 billion worth of contracts with education nonprofits have gone up in flames over the past 10 days, and public institutions may soon need to close DEI-related programming, according to another wave of executive orders from President Donald Trump. The university was one of 20 recipients to receive the grant.

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